GREGORY MATTHEW ADKINS
gregory.adkins@notes.udayton.edu
429 Forrer Blvd. Dayton, Ohio 45419
Home: 937.297.0031 Cell: 937.205.4057
EDUCATION
Ph.D. in European History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2002.
“The Failure of Reason: Science, Absolutism, and Social Stability in Old Regime France,”
PhD Dissertation, 2002, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Master of Arts in History of Science, University of Florida at Gainesville, 1997.
“Excavating the Shipwreck of Antiquity: Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc and the
Scholarly Tradition in France from the Seventeenth through the Nineteenth Centuries,”
MA Thesis, 1997, University of Florida.
Bachelor of Arts in History, Illinois State University (Magna Cum Laude), 1993.
RESEARCH AND PUBLICATIONS
“When Ideas Matter: The Moral Philosophy of Fontenelle,” Journal of the History of Ideas (Fall
2000): 433-452.
“Ordinary Politics, Uncommon Ideas,” Review of Tracy B. Strong, Jean-Jacques Rousseau: The
Politics of the Ordinary (Lanham, MA and Oxford: Rowman & Littlefield, 2002), for H-Ideas
(forthcoming in 2003).
“Marquis de Condorcet,” and “Société des Amis des Noirs,” in The Encyclopedia of
Emancipation and Abolition in the Trans-Atlantic World, ed. Junius P. Rodriguez (forthcoming
from ME Sharpe, Inc. June 2005).
Current Projects:
“The Montmor Discourse: Historiography and the French Enlightenment Beyond
Habermas” (under consideration).
“Reflecting on Revolution: A Philosophe Critiques America” (paper to be presented at the
History Society 2004 conference).
“The Ideological Transformation of the Parti Philosophique: Condorcet and the Rhetoric
of Struggle, 1766-1789” (in draft).
Book Project: The Politics of the Disillusioned: Philosophy and Crisis in the Origins of
Liberal Ideology.
FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS, HONORS
Finalist for the George Mason University Postdoctoral Teaching Fellowship, Department of
History and Art History, 2003.
Doris Quinn Dissertation Writing Fellowship, 2001-2002.
Georges Lurcy Dissertation Research Fellowship, 2000-2001. Fellows funded to conduct
dissertation research in France.
HEC Assistantship, 1999-2000. Recipient of competitive one-year scholarship awarded by the
UNC-Chapel Hill Department of Romance Languages to serve as an English Lecturer at the HEC
School of Business, Paris.
Foreign Language Area Studies Grant (FLAS), 1999. Awarded through the Center for European
Studies, UNC-Chapel Hill, to study French at the Ecole France Langue in Nice, France, June August 1999.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Visiting Lecturer, University of Dayton, 2002 - present: HST 101: Western Civilization to 1715,
HST 102: Western Civilization from 1715, HST 303: Ancient Rome, HST 302: Ancient Greece,
HST 486: Seminar in European History (The Antislavery Movement in the Atlantic World).
Visiting Adjunct Instructor, Antioch College, 2003: HST 112: Ancient Rome.
Teaching Fellow, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2001: HST 011: Western
Civilization to 1650.
English Lecturer, HEC School of Business, Paris, Centre de Ressources et d'Etudes Anglophones,
1999-2000.
Graduate Teaching Assistant, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1997-1999: Western
Civilization, Early Modern Europe, Medieval Europe.
Graduate Teaching Assistant, University of Florida, 1996-1997: History of Science, Western
Civilization.
Undergraduate Teaching Assistant, Illinois State University, 1992-1993.
TEACHING INTERESTS
European History (ancient to modern); Old Régime France; Enlightenment and Revolution in the
Atlantic World; history of science, intellectual and cultural history; political ideologies,
liberalism, and political activism.
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LANGUAGES
English: native
French:
fluent
Latin:
reading skills in classical and early-modern Latin
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
The American Historical Association
The Historical Society
REFERENCES AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST
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